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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

If you don’t vote for populism in 2017 it will be back in 2020: bigger, stronger and more pissed off!

If you are not a Member of Parliament or New
Zealand’s elite you can stop reading here.

Let’s take a step
away from the current day to day of the election cycle and fix our gaze on the
larger global political landscape and how NZ might fit into the dynamics of
what’s going on.

Recently the world
has seen a definite movement towards a series of events, opinions and ideas
that people have termed populist.

Events like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall
Street, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit and even our very own Winston
Peters all have the populist tinge.

Unfortunately most
of the people who use the term populist use it in a negative or pejorative manner
which reflects either their own elitist opinions and views or that they are
echoing those elite opinions and views (as fed to them by the media).

And to be fair to you
elites you should be worried about populism because it is, in essence, a
rejection of your self-interested views and market orientated way of doing
things and a call to change the direction of not just politics, nations and
economies but also whole regions, and perhaps even the world; away from mostly serving
only the ultra-wealthy few and realigning it towards that of the common person
and the greater good.

Of course at this
point the more Right wing of you will be tuning out as you anticipate another “left
wing rant” while others on the Left might be gleefully expecting another round
of “Bash the Tory” but neither of you are correct because both Left and Right
are just vehicles for elites and their politics and as anyone who regularly
reads this blog knows I have (and will) bash both sides should the need arise.

And this post is not
about what’s wrong on the Left or the Right but what’s wrong with the system
because Left and Right are just different symptoms of the same disease, a
disease called political decay, and populism, no matter how much you deny it,
is the cure.

Thus with the 2017
election shaping up to be an exercise in both mediocrity and banality without
even the previous freak show antics of Kim Dot Com or Dirty Politics to make it
entertaining that populist undercurrent that has been ticking away in the
background, like some weird noise you keep hearing under your floor boards at
night has grown from a few isolated bumps into a full blown home
invasion.

You can try and
bolt the door, desperately hoping to stave off the inevitable by voting
National or Labour (or even the Greens) but it will do you no good as New
Zealand is not immune and those dark seeds which you sowed over 30 years ago and
are now bearing their ominous fruit.

It only took 30
years, approximately time enough for those who grew up in this bleak age and
for those who lived though it, to see that there is no greater good waiting for
us at the end of the franchise rainbow and that the only way we will get what
we want is to take it ourselves, from you.

So if we could
consider the body populace like a human mind, the elites might be seen as the “rational”
and conscious aspect of that entity while the vox populi is the darker and
deeper subconscious, and as modern psychology and science has shown, the
subconscious is the far more numerous and powerful of the two and that the ability
of the consciousness to control its other is often tenuous at best and pure illusion
at worst.

And, if you’re part
of NZ’s elite, those nagging voices in the back of your head and that eerie
feeling that whatever is scritching away down in the basement is not friendly
are not going to go away and will
in fact get worse.

Your creeping
paranoia that “they are out to get me” is entirely justified, we are out to get
you but at this point we are out to get you to do your job, not rip your class
out by the roots from this society and plant someone new in charge.

However the recent release
of Stats New Zealand’s “Well-being Statistics” when contrasted with the fact
that NZ has the most expensive housing in the OECD and all other sorts of
negative social indicators shows the struggle between the two parts of the NZ
psyche is growing and the gap widening between the populist dreams that helped shape
New Zealand in the 20th century (because if we went back to the 19th
we would have other issues to deal with and that’s for another post) and the harsh reality that we have become in the 21st.

And as that gap between
dreams and reality grows so too does the populist sentiment and the voices in
your head.

And at this point I
can hear some of you saying “But it can’t happen here! We are not going to have
riots in the streets or mass protests or social disorder. This is New Zealand!”

Really? It can’t
happen here?

There is nothing
special about NZ; not its size, nor distance from the rest of the world. Nothing
in its cultures or demographics which will guarantee insulation from a
populist outcome sooner or later.

To be sure populism
in NZ will be have a strong NZ flavor (remember the Springbok Tour?) but populism
it will still be and the longer it’s takes us to wrest your scaly claws off the
levers of power and to steer New Zealand back onto a more equal course the more
extreme and negative the outcome will be for you and us as well.

This is the lesson
of history that elites rarely bother to learn, the longer you stand in the way of
the greater forces of the vox populi the angrier the result and the more likely
that you will also be permanently removed in order to enact needed change and that sometimes the change wont be what any party desires.

Take for instance Zimbabwe,
which was once Rhodesia. The white elite in Rhodesia fought long and hard for
its right to racial minority rule, it won on the battlefield but in the end
lost the war; and due to the length and brutality of that struggle the result
was not a better place but a new racial elite and dictator, the average person no better off and a pariah
nation with crippling debt.

Or how about tropical
Singapore which has been under rule of one family almost since independence from
Great Britain 50 years ago where harsh censorship, gerrymandering, draconian
laws and a “Disneyland with the death penalty” facade are the only means hiding
the seething racial tension, political dissent and grinding poverty which many in Singapore face.

And just to round
things out how about the UK where one year ago Jeremy Corbyn was being called a
political looser and fighting off challenges from inside his own party but
nearly won the UK general election and he and his party would win if an election was called today.

This is the power
(and peril) of populism; this is what happens when elites decide to gut
democracy for their own selfish benefit and refuse to give up their privilege
and this is what can happen when even in the face of clear calls for change you
won’t back down on your greedy agendas.

This election you’re
trying to dampen down the flames of the populist fire that has been burning a
long time but with the usual escape hatch of Australia swinging shut there are
a lot more refugees from your skeezy dealings than ever before coming home to
roost.

You’re working hard
to keep us focused on our tri-annual ritual of going to the polling booth and pushing
the button for one of your “representatives” in Labour, National or the Greens
while trying to contain your agent provocateur over in NZ First, and you might
just pull it off this election but for how much longer?

Sooner or later a
result will emerge that you cannot contain or control (like Brexit or Trump)
and the longer you try and delay things the more extreme the eventual outcome
will be.

Have you not
figured out yet that people like Trump, Bernie Sander and Jeremy Corbyn are
just avatars for change, any change where you
are not in charge? They are not there for their good looks or sound policies
but because they position themselves as far away as possible from your own dull
faced politicians.

Can you not see
that we might have a “Kiwi Spring” with crowds milling in Aotearoa Square and that
you’re going to have to engage in more repressive and severe means to keep Smith’s
Dream in check if that happens.

So this election a
vote for any of the mainstream parties is simply a waste and I encourage you to
vote for one of the minor parties as you can still do your duty, as the elite
of this country, and lead the way rather than slack off at the back, eating all
the pies.

You can vote
National in the hope of maintaining your illusions for another few years before
your front door is kicked in and your dragged out to be put up against a wall
or you can vote for Labour with the self-sanctified smugness of the ideological
zealot but will still find yourself facing the grim reality of fighting for
scraps when things finally go bad.

You can even cast
your vote for the Greens as a safety valve “third option” and watch a bunch of
political shape-changers slide into parliament and then achieve very little but
it won’t stop populism.

This election don’t
fight populism, give the people what they want, embrace it, ride that wave of change and ensure your survival
rather than your vilification and eventual demise (as a class, not as
individuals).

All societies need
elites to run them but those elites need to maintain a degree of responsiveness
to those who you rule (the Noblesse oblige as it were**) or you will face the consequences
when your refusal to do your job leads to the very chaos and anarchy that you
have sought to prevent.

You might be able
to stave off things in 2017, but its taking more and more energy to do that and
sooner or later you’re going to make a fatal slip and no slick talking PM or
dead eyed party leader is going to talk their way out of it. You will find the merest
thing, the slightest scandal an excuse for behaviors and activities that you
won’t be in charge of and people who you won’t be able to get back into the political
conga line.

When 2020 comes
round you will have fewer options and fewer friends to turn to and populism
will be bigger, stronger and way more pissed off as you will have failed to do
anything real to stop it and just backed the same broken parties and policies
you always have.

So do the right
thing this election, back the real parties for change and get rid of your failing
lapdogs on the left, right and center*.

*-Possibly for new
lap dogs but as they say change is as good as a holiday.

4 comments:

Now that you see what we philistines, deplorables, and rednecks are up to EA you will probably be able to hear the jabber coming from your left wing and wonder what is wrong with them. Locally there seem only a few people like you and Steve Cowan on the left without the condition of supercilious condescension we see in political leaders, operatives , and elitists.On the local scene again, it is deathly quiet on the expected attack front. They are letting Metiria T have her exposure of course, but I smell doubt.Joyce and Company are aware that New Zealanders turn against major slander efforts. They have to provide substance, and HE does hold something on John Key, and English. There may be a stand off.

Overseas populismThe scene has shifted. We now see the root cause of Immigration problems as not the untreatable rabid Islam, but our own leaders in the West who are facilitating, and provoking the suicide of European culture.Anti Semitism Your commenter on the previous post mentions anti semitism. The alt-right in UKistan and USA are not just anti semitiic, they are anti Jewish, because they see a predominance of Jewish dominance and power at the centre and formation of the destruction of the culture which they wish to retain. . I am not anti Jewish, and I do not see the conspiracy.A quick review of the BBC, in UKistan, ABC in Australia, and Radio NZ will give you some idea of what we see as propaganda from the enemies among us. The media must be, and will be destroyed. I am heavily monitored at Whale Oil, and Farrar leaves his blue rinse zombie mob to discipline errants. Populism and the Alt-RightCivil war with Social Justice warriors, progressives, and California pyjama boys will avail us nothing.In the next few years you will see the definitions of future action firm up toward [deleted ] of the head snakes we have inside our Societies. These are not boys plans, they are part of a deliberate positioning to place the [ deleted ] where it belongs.We will no longer let our children and people be the front line slaughtered, with the willful acceptance and reactionary measures from leaders we despise. I could define the emerging position further, but you know that a few paragraphs like this, without deletions. and the obvious conclusions, in UKistan or even Brisbane today could see me apprehended.

One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

Moxon above, from what I can read some of the Jewish antagonism comes from associations of Jewish influence over deeply hated Institutions. Let us say the BBC in UKistan at the ground level, and then the massive Finance, money and credit providing institutions at a higher level.And as well there is credited the idea that Judaism and Israel promotes globalism everywhere except Israel.Believe me the discussion about this us well worth having before we see anything like the sheer cold anger I read from overseas work.We could be in for a patch of luck in New Zealand. It seems now that the available personality smears are matched evenly between NZ First and Nat.This is good, and as EA notes as the feature of his post, the more you humiliate us, the more ferocious we will be when the time comes.See EA's feature photo of the man with a blooded mouth, and yet only getting started.

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